Wrestling at the 1972 München Summer Games:

The last two World Champions were Bulgarian [Georgi Markov] (1971) and Japan’s [Hideo Fujimoto] (1970), and they were present in München, along with the man who would win the 1973-74 Worlds, Poland’s [Kazimierz Lipień]. After five rounds, five wrestlers remained – the above three, East German [Heinz-Helmut Wehling], and Soviet Georgian [Jemal Megrelishvili]. In round six Markov had a bye which brought him the gold medal when the other four were eliminated on bad points. Lipień defeated Fujimoto and Wehling defeated Megrelishvili, but they were both decisions, and the single bad points put them over the 6 point limit. Wehling won the silver based on his throw of Lipień in round five, but in addition to his two World titles, Lipień would win the gold in this event in 1976. Wehling would win a bronze medal in Montréal, but as a lightweight.